Earth events - 3 March, 2015

5.5 quake in southwest China injures 30, destroys hundreds of buildings

RT,

3 March, 2013

At least 30 people were injured when a magnitude-5.5.earthquake hit southwest China's Yunnan province, destroying more than 1,400 buildings and damaging over 6,000 homes, China Central Television said.

Earlier, Xinhua news agency reported that the quake destroyed about 700 homes and damaged over 2,500 buildings.

An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale was recorded on Sunday afternoon in Eryuan county of Yunnan province, near China’s border with Myanmar.

The epicenter was at a depth of 9 kilometers, local seismologists said. The quake struck 51 kilometers from the city of Dali, and was registered as deep as 33 kilometers below the surface of the planet, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).

Thirty people have been injured, and three of the injured sustained serious wounds, Xinhua reported. According to RIA Novosti news agency one person is in a serious condition. There were no reports of fatalities. An estimated 130,000 people inhabit the area. Some 55,000 people were affected by the quake, according to the Yunnan Provincial Civil Affairs Department.

A humanitarian relief operation is being carried out in the region; provincial authorities have sent 6,000 tents, blankets and sets of clothes for disaster relief.

In February, eight people were injured after a 4.9-magnitude quake hit the Yunnan and Sichuan border provinces. A series of earthquakes also struck that same southwest region last September, killing dozens of people.

Screenshot from CCTV video

Screenshot from CCTV video

Earthquakes in the world on March 3,

 2013 (M4.5 or more)

SRC	Location	UTC Date/time	M	D	INFORMATION
ER	I Felt A (not Listed) Strong Earthquake	Mar 03 23:59 PM	4.6	0	MAP I Felt It
GEOFON	Java, Indonesia	Mar 03 13:52 PM	4.6	22	MAP I Felt It INFO
EMSC	Java, Indonesia	Mar 03 13:52 PM	4.6	22	MAP I Felt It INFO
GEOFON	Irian Jaya, Indonesia	Mar 03 08:43 AM	4.6	65	MAP I Felt It INFO
USGS	Papua, Indonesia	Mar 03 08:43 AM	4.6	50	MAP I Felt It
EMSC	Papua, Indonesia	Mar 03 08:43 AM	4.6	60	MAP I Felt It INFO
EMSC	Seram, Indonesia	Mar 03 06:37 AM	4.6	10	MAP I Felt It INFO
Wolcott ny - The house shook and rattled screen door woke me up from sleeping
GEOFON	Seram, Indonesia	Mar 03 06:37 AM	4.6	10	MAP I Felt It INFO
EMSC	Yunnan, China	Mar 03 05:41 AM	5.4	40	MAP I Felt It
USGS	Yunnan, China	Mar 03 05:41 AM	5.2	8	MAP I Felt It
GEOFON	Yunnan, China	Mar 03 05:41 AM	5.4	9	MAP I Felt It INFO
Dali -Yunnan - 2200 metri a ridosso delle montagne ,dentro casa è durato circa 5 secondi , stranamente gli animali non si sono lamentati . niki Kunming, Yunnan - On 10th floor seated at computer with leg against desk. Felt weak movement and saw hanging light fixtures sway, but aquarium water not disturbed. I told my daughter I thought we were having an earthquake, but she couldn't feel it.
GEOFON	Northern Molucca Sea	Mar 03 04:44 AM	4.8	10	MAP I Felt It INFO
EMSC	Northeastern Sakha, Russia	Mar 03 03:29 AM	4.8	10	MAP I Felt It INFO
GEOFON	Eastern Siberia, Russia	Mar 03 03:29 AM	4.8	10	MAP I Felt It
USGS	Northeastern Sakha, Russia	Mar 03 03:29 AM	4.7	14	MAP I Felt It
USGS	Near The South Coast Of New Guinea, Papua New	Mar 03 03:25 AM	5.7	193	MAP I Felt It
GEOFON	Near S. Coast Of New Guinea, Png.	Mar 03 03:25 AM	5.6	187	MAP I Felt It
EMSC	Near S Coast Of New Guinea, Png.	Mar 03 03:25 AM	5.6	195	MAP I Felt It INFO
EMSC	Tajikistan	Mar 03 03:12 AM	5.1	16	MAP I Felt It
GEOFON	Afghanistan-tajikistan Border Region	Mar 03 03:12 AM	5.1	13	MAP I Felt It INFO
USGS	Tajikistan	Mar 03 03:12 AM	5.1	9	MAP I Felt It
GEOFON	Afghanistan-tajikistan Border Region	Mar 03 02:37 AM	4.7	228	MAP I Felt It INFO
EMSC	Solomon Islands	Mar 03 02:27 AM	4.8	103	MAP I Felt It
USGS	Solomon Islands	Mar 03 02:27 AM	4.8	103	MAP I Felt It INFO
GEOFON	Solomon Islands	Mar 03 02:26 AM	4.8	49	MAP I Felt It INFO

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Agitated Earth: hundreds of homes flattened by earthquake in China, mountainside collapses in the Philippines, killing 5

 The Extinction Protocol,

March 3, 2013

March 3, 2013 – PHILIPPINES 

– Five workers were killed and nine others trapped in a landslide at a construction site in the eastern Philippines, police said Saturday, dpa reported. The victims were building anti-erosion railings on the side of a highland road in Kananga town in Leyte province, 540 kilometres south-east of Manila, when the mountain collapsed on them, said police Senior Inspector Antonio Angcay. Steam pipes also exploded when hit by the landslide, which occurred after days of heavy rains, he said. The five bodies were recovered immediately after the accident Friday, but efforts to rescue the nine trapped workers were hampered by heavy rain, Angcay said. 

–Trend

Quake smashes homes in China

 Chinese officials say a shallow, 5.5 magnitude earthquake has hit southwest China, causing hundreds of homes to collapse and injuring about 20 people. China’s official Xinhuanews agency says the quake struck a rural area in the southwestern province of Yunnan Sunday afternoon, destroying 700 homes and damaging a further 2,500 houses. There were no reports of fatalities, though three of the injured are in serious condition. Xinhua said the quake struck just nine kilometers beneath the surface. The provincial earthquake bureau has sent a team to the quake area. 

-VOA

Iran still reeling from aftershocks: 

The 6.4-magnitude earthquake, which rocked the city of Varzaghan in East Azarbaijan Province northwest of Iran on August 11, has had 4162 aftershocks, the Fars News Agencyreported. The latest aftershock occurred on Saturday measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale. According to the report, Varzaghan has jolted 14 times in the past 24 hours. The main earthquake imposed some 11 trillion rials (about $900 million) loss on industry, agriculture, and service sectors. According to latest reports, 306 people were dead and over 3,000 injured. Iranian government has allocated $49 million for rebuilding and re-constructing the living houses of the quake-affected victims in the province, country’s Interior minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said. 

–Trend